Is Blacklist Worth While?

1916

London, Sept. 7. — Commenting on the amendment to the revenue bill passed by the United States Senate Tuesday night, empowering the President to retaliate against interference with American commerce, the Manchester Guardian says that although those who see in it no more than a flourish having a special virtue on the eve of election may be right, "nevertheless we should do well to note two things:

"First — These reprisals are directed against the Allies, and primarily against ourselves.

"Second — They are popular in America."

The Guardian says it is not generally realized here how strong a sentiment has been aroused throughout the United States by the blacklist policy and interference with mails, and asks: "If the Foreign Office is convinced these practices of ours are so useful as to counterbalance the weakening of American sympathy they involve, or that they cannot be modified so as to meet American objections without impairing any utilities they may have for ourselves."

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 6.